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| Designing Culture just barely loses five stars, for a couple shortcomings, but it is an outstanding work at the intersection of science & technology studies, literacy studies and design, which not only does justice to each field but says new and impo...more | |
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I've been calling myself a futurist for the past five years, and for five years, I've been lying. But no longer, because I've read this book, which is every bit as a thought-provoking as Science Fiction for Prototyping proved disappointing. Peter Sch...
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| The Difference Engine is better read as Great Big Idea SF than as an exemplar of the genre it gave rise to, steampunk. Rather a grim alternate history of a proto-totalitarian Britain run by a government of science and industry and police steam comput...more | |
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One of the best academic monographs I've read: an outstanding, tight linkage of theory, methodology, deep research (17 years of fieldwork) to produce a strong, coherent schema for distinguishing among a range of complex and inter-related phenomena. Wh...more |
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Do you think you're hard? Do you think you're some sort of Tier Zero Modern Warfare Elite Ops Deniable Badass? Do you even think you know about such people? Until you've read this book, you don't know shit.
Cu Chi was a district just 25 mile... " Read more of this review » |
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| The final chapter bumped this up to 4 stars: until then the author hadn't adequately made the case for writing a comparative study of UK transvestites and Indian Hijras, nor engaged with theory of identity and gender in a deep way, but the ending pul...more | |
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America Genesis claims to cover a century of innovation, but the core of the book is much more tightly focused on the Second Industrial Revolution, electrification, motor transport, and mass production, and the rise of the immense technological syste...
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"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of time and besides it annoys the pig."
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Robert A. Heinlein
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“Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of time and besides it annoys the pig.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
― Robert A. Heinlein
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